5 Tips to Prepare Your Small Business for Summer
Summer is here – which means sunshine, the smell of freshly mowed grass, and some much-needed downtime is right around the corner. But as a business owner it’s much more than that. For some, the approaching summer translates to a slow and lean period. For others, business is booming.
Whichever category your small or medium-sized business falls into, the summer months offer some unique opportunities, as well as challenges, that all businesses need to prepare for ahead of time.
Read the five tips to ensure that your business stays ahead of the curve, no matter what the summer months throw at you.
Preparing Your Small Business for Success in 2022
Over the last several years, business owners have had to make major shifts in the way they operate, serve customers and cultivate relationships within their community – with their vendors and partners. And the reality is, small business owners will continue to face an uphill battle as COVID-19 challenges continue.
A record proportion of small business owners report they continue to have an extremely hard time hiring the workers they need to operate their businesses. In fact, according to National Federation of Independent Business’s (NFIB) monthly survey, 56% (93% of those hiring or trying to hire) of owners reported few or no qualified applicants for the positions they were trying to fill.
Often, the biggest challenges for small businesses are also the greatest opportunities. Read more on tips to help prepare your small businesses for success in 2022.
6 Tried and True Summer Marketing Tips for Small Business
Spring quickly gave away to summer, and with great weather comes great opportunities for marketing and branding your business. Depending on the industry, some small businesses find that summer brings a seasonal lull in sales and general business activity. Others find that the warm weather causes business to heat up.
Here are seven tried-and-true summer marketing tips you can use to market yourself this summer.
10 Tips for Planning for Your Small Business’s Future
It’s impossible to know exactly what’s in store for the future of your business. But some careful planning can help you make the most of your opportunities.
Small Business Spotlight – Cibo Meals
Cibo (chee-bo) is the Italian word for food. They create locally prepared, fresh-to-jar meals delivered each week to spice up your dinners and lunches with internationally-inspired meals in reusable, environmentally-friendly Mason jars.
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When Emily started Cibo Meals in 2016, her goal was to introduce her customers to new ingredients and exciting ethnic, international, and creative flavors. That mission quickly expanded in the months that followed to encompass sustainability and the prudent use of resources.
She believes our world would have a better, more sustainable future if every person ate at least two meat-free dinners each week. Livestock agriculture is a huge source of greenhouse gases, and commercial overfishing threatens to wipe out ecosystems and species.
At Cibo, they want to do their part to stop these trends by transforming dining tables in the Denver Metro area one meal at a time with their delicious, ready-to-eat, vegetarian meals.
Their focus on sustainability is directed inward too. Emily’s done her best to make every element of their company as ecologically neutral as possible. Read more here.
Celebrate World Trade Month
May is World Trade Month, and there’s no better time than now to go global.
Want to increase your bottom line? Think about increasing your international footprint. Businesses that sell abroad tend to make more sales, employ more people, and grow at higher rates. Plus, nearly 98% of all U.S. companies that export are small and medium-sized businesses. May is World Trade Month, and there’s no better time than now to go global.
Don’t know where to start? Read the full article here.
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Protect Your Business Against Cyberattacks – Affordably.
A cyberattack can damage more than just your small or mid-size business networks – it can also devastate your business’s reputation and put your customers and employees at risk. By scanning your networks, we help you discover and address vulnerabilities while staying on top of new risks. And we’ll provide you with a specialist to help resolve the vulnerabilities remotely. In the event that your business is hacked, related expenses up to $100K with a Cyber – Protection Plan will help to put your business back on track quickly. IDShield for Business provides the essential layers to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from a cyberattack. Learn more here.
Our 2022 LegalShield Community Outreach
The past two years brought many different challenges for families and businesses. Through it all, LegalShield and IDShield have been there providing assistance, resources, and peace of mind for you and others just like you.
My goal is to help as many families and businesses, as possible, to know about our services. If you have any family or friends who could benefit from our services, or if you know any business owners/ executives who could benefit from our Business Legal Plans, please have them contact me directly. It would be my pleasure to provide them with one-on-one, personalized assistance.
On behalf of our Provider Law Firms, Fraud Investigators and myself, thank you for the opportunity to serve you and. your family.
Cheryl Blum Garcia,
Benefit & Broker Specialist
LegalShield Business Solutions
